BATTLEGROUND EUROPE: LOOS-HOHENZOLLERN: French Flanders

The most important British battle on the western front in 1915 at last gets the full treatment it deserves in a ‘Battlefield Europe’ classic. Loos, though a bloody failure, saw heroism in plenty, and was a grim ‘blooding’ for the BEF.

Loos is one of the most neglected battles in the entire Great War. The reasons are not far to seek: : from the British point of view, although the biggest battle undertaken by the BEF on the western front in 1915, Loos was a complete and bloody failure. In the words of Nigel Cave, editor of this excellent series it was ‘A depressing battle fought over depressing countryside’. Now Andrew Rawson has triumphantly restored the battle to its proper place in history with this excellent history/guide designed - like all the ‘Battleground Europe’ books - to be read with profit both at home and while walking the battlefield itself. He tells the story of the battle - its planning, execution and ultimate failure - and of the heroic but fruitless assaults carried out by the men of the 9th (Scottish) Division; the 28th Division and the 12th (Eastern) DIvision on the strongly fortified Hohenzollern Redoubt and other impregnable German defences amidst the slag-heap scarred mining villages around Loos. Notable for the deaths of John ‘My Boy Jack’ Kipling and the poet Charles Sorley, and mentioned in the memoirs of Frank Richards and Robert Graves, with this book Loos has now been given the full historical treatment it deserves.

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Product Code:	10790
Author:	Andrew Rawson
Format:	173pp, b/w photographs, maps, sb. Published Price £9.95
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